American Notes and Queries Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...meaning of recondite allusions, etc., etc.--are invited from all quarters, and will be answered by editors or contributors. Room is allowed for the discussion of moot questions, and the periodical is thus a valuable medium for intercommunication between literary men and specialists. Communications for the literary department should be addressed: EDITOR AMERICAN NOTES AND QUERIES. All checks and money orders to be made payable to the order of The Westminster Publishing Company, 619 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. CONTENTS. NOTES: --Leuca, 157--Curious Coptic Customs--Myatt, 158. QUERIES: --Wind-propulsion of Wheelbarrows--Bishop Liberated from Prison--Claude's Wife, 158--Lazarillo de Tonnes--River Turned Back, 150--Lobster Chancing Color--Mephistophelcs--Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 160. REPLIES: --The Liwash, or Putrid Sea, 160--St. MichaelTom Green--I Shall be Satisfied--Sambo--Seal of the Confederacy--Rush Carpets, 161. REFERRED TO CORRESPONDENTS: --Leper KingsBusy as a Nailer, 161--Barkstonc--Brazen Fly of Virgil--Inquisition, 162. COMMUNICATIONS: --Crowned A--I Acknowledge the Corn--Lord Timothy Dexter--Colen--Greek Cities in France and Spain, 162--Curious Burial Customs--Curiosities of Animal Punishment, 163--Raymond Lully--The Guinea--Underground Rivers--Sunken Cities, 164--Bottomless Ponds--The Captain of My Dreams--Arthur Kill--Paheologus--Maroons--Oddities of Noted People, 165--Trivium and Qu.idrivium--Famous Spinsters--Duke of York, 166--The Landfall of Columbus--"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep;' or, "Four Corners to My Bed," 167. BOOKS AND PERIODICALS: --168. LEUCA. (LOWEY OF TUNDE1DGB, VOL. V, P. 113.) The word leuca, mentioned in the interesting note at the above reference, supplies an instance of early topographical trope, the ...